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3.0 out of 5 starsGood throughput but, there maybe issues with power mgmt. (not sure if card or cables yet)

ByJames S. Binderon January 3, 2016

On my Macpro5,1 running OS X 10.11; Seems to work however; I've noticed some issues with drive disconnects when Powermgmt activities take place.. (e.g., sleep). I keep getting messages that indicate a drive hasn't been properly ejected. Don't see that with stock USB or SATA.

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Bought this card for an older i3 on a EVGA P55 motherboard. I use esata to connect to a Raid 5 enclosure. I had been having very slow write speeds for awhile and grown frustrated switching out hard drives, cable, and finally the enclosure itself. Nothing worked. Finally got this to rule out the esata port as a cause even though the esata ports on the motherboard are rated at 3 Gbps. The motherboard maker had stopped releasing new drivers two years ago.

All you do is pop this card in a free PCI-E slot and that's it. "Asmedia Sata" flashes up briefly after the bios notification.

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I installed this card on my desktop PC with an Asus motherboard running windows 7 and it was literally intuitive. It was instantly recognized and connected both of my e-sata drives instantly. I love how much faster I can access my drive contents than I was able to using USB connections. Just as an aside, if you are running windows XP, you must download and install the driver separately. It was a no go for me on my XP machine, but that's not to say it can't be done.

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I bought this card to eliminate a problem that I had with the older card causing the PC to hang during BIOS detection of my external drives, but it appears that I also have improved the transfer rate significantly over that card also. This card is so short (3"), that it fits into an x1 PCIe slot that nothing else on my system would fit into, freeing up an x16 slot for something else. If this card doesn't fail or cause other problems in the future, then it will have been an excellent buy

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My 2009 Mac Pro got painted into a corner with no USB 3 or Thunderbolt support. This eSATA 6G PCIe card was just the ticket to bring my aging beast up to speed. No drivers or special configuration needed under OS 10.85: pushed card into the slot, closed the case and plugged in my LaCie and OWC drives. For only $35 a nice speed bump over FW800 and my video and audio files open a lot faster. Highly recommended!

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I had an older, Voyager USB, FireWire, eSata dock that I tried to use with this card but it kept disconnecting after heavy use. I didn't know if it was the dock or the card, so I decided to try another dock (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005UA3I72) and the card and dock work perfectly with no sleep/disconnecting issues.

I would definitely recommend this card for someone who has an older Mac Pro without USB3 and wants some more speed out of their external disks